Red Sea crisis forces Maersk to increase capacity over strategy limit
Maersk Line appears to have temporarily abandoned its strategy of maintaining capacity at no more ...
By Mike Wackett
Ocean carriers are looking to extend transit times in a bid to improve schedule reliability and cut costs.
They are starting to add more buffer time into schedules to mitigate the impact of chronic global port congestion.
Hapag-Lloyd said today it was adding seven days to the westbound schedule of its AS2 Asia to South America east coast schedule for 13 weeks – one of two loops it operates on the trade in cooperation with Maersk, Hamburg Süd, MSC and ONE.
It said ...
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